John H Busch Deceased7502 Oakmont Dr, Santa Rosa, CA 95409

2008013, Jun 5, 2008

Dec 1, 2006

11/607527

Ilya Gluhovsky - Daly City CA, US
David Vengerov - Santa Clara CA, US
John Busch - Cupertino CA, US

G06Q 10/00
G06F 17/10

705 10

One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that models customer behavior in a multi-choice service environment. The system constructs a probability density function f to represent probabilities of service-level choices made by customers, wherein the probability density function is a function of functional variables u(d) and p(d); u(d) is a utility function for a specific customer type indexed by vector θ; p(d) is a given price curve which specifies a relationship between service levels offered by a service provider and corresponding prices for the offered service levels; and u(d) and p(d) are both functions of the offered service levels d. The system then obtains a distribution function π(θ) which specifies a probability distribution of different customer types θ. Next, the system obtains a service level-choice distribution for a population of customers as a function of a given price curve based on the probability density function f and π(θ).

5771742, Jun 30, 1998

Sep 11, 1995

8/526715

Michael D. Bokaie - Fremont CA
John D. Busch - San Jose CA
A. David Johnson - San Leandro CA
Bruce Petty - Dunsmuir CA

TiNi Alloy Company - San Leandro CA

B25G 318

74 2

A release mechanism employing an actuating element of a shape memory alloy material. When the actuating element is heated through its phase-change transition temperature it applies a force which moves a latch to a position which activates the higher energy stored in a drive spring for moving a retaining element out of engagement with a structure. A detent when in a captured position releasably holds the retaining element in its locked position, and the detent is moved from a captured position to a retracted position to release the retaining element when the latch is moved by the actuating element.

5061914, Oct 29, 1991

Jun 27, 1989

7/373030

John D. Busch - Berkeley CA
Alfred D. Johnson - Berkeley CA

Tini Alloy Company - Berkeley CA

H01H 6106
H01H 7118

337140

A method of producing an integral piece of thermo-sensitive material, which is responsive to a shift in temperature from below to above a phase transformation temperature range to alter the material's condition to a shape-memory condition and move from one position to another. The method is characterized by depositing a thin film of shape-memory material, such as Nickel titanium (Ni-Ti) onto a substrate by vacuum deposition process such that the alloy exhibits an amorphous non-crystalline structure. The coated substrate is then annealed in a vacuum or in the presence of an inert atmosphere at a selected temperature, time and cool down rate to produce an ordered, partially disordered or fully disordered BCC structure such that the alloy undergoes thermoelastic, martinsetic phase transformation in response to alteration in temperature to pass from a martinsetic phase when at a temperature below a phase transformation range and capable of a high level of recoverable strain to a parent austenitic phase in a memory shape when at a temperature above the phase transformation range. Also disclosed are actuator devices employing "shape-memory material" actuators that deform from a set shape toward an original shape when subjected to a critical temperature level after having been initially deformed from the original shape into the set shape while at a lower temperature. The actuators are mechanically coupled to one or more movable elements such that the temperature-induce deformation of the actuators exerts a force or generates a motion of the mechanical element(s).

2015027, Oct 1, 2015

Jul 21, 2014

14/336931

- Milpitas CA, US
Tomy A. Cheru - Kerala, IN
Manavalan Krishnan - Fremont CA, US
John Busch - Cupertino CA, US

G06F 12/08

A computer system detects a request to access a first data object stored in a tiered data structure that includes internal nodes and leaf nodes. In response to detecting the request, the computer system determines whether the first data object is stored in a cache that includes a plurality of data objects from the tiered data structure that are stored separately from their corresponding leaf node in the cache. When the first data object is stored in the cache, the computer system returns the first data object from the cache and when the first data object is not stored in the cache, the computer system traverses the tiered data structure to a leaf node that includes the first data object and returns the first data object from the leaf node for the first data object in the tiered data structure.